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Centralised by Design: Anglocentric Constitutionalism, Accountability and the Failure of English Devolution

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 189-198, January/March 2025.
Abstract The Labour manifesto in this year's election implied a radical restructuring of the UK state, the way in which England is governed and in relations across the United Kingdom. The aim of making English devolution the ‘default option’ is set against fifty years of unsuccessful and partial devolution initiatives which have failed to reverse the ...
John Denham, Janice Morphet
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Change and Continuity in British Politics: Can the Starmer Government's Approach to Governance Resolve the Crisis in the British State without Radical Reform?

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 140-148, January/March 2025.
Abstract In this article, the key dilemmas that will confront the new Labour administration in Britain during its initial period in power are examined. The Starmer government is seeking to use the state pragmatically to improve British economic performance, stem the crisis in public services and strengthen the strategic capacity of Whitehall.
Patrick Diamond, David Richards, Sam Warner   +2 more
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The Most Disproportionate UK Election: How the Labour Party Doubled its Seat Share with a 1.6‐Point Increase in Vote Share in 2024

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 37-64, January/March 2025.
Abstract The Labour Party doubled its seats in the 2024 UK general election, winning a landslide majority with only a 1.6 point increase in its UK vote share and an historically low vote share for a winning party at just under 34 per cent. This article provides new evidence for three constituency‐level explanations for this outcome in the context of ...
Marta Miori, Jane Green
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The House of Lords and Devolution: Already a Chamber of the Nations and Regions?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract When it published its report in 2022, one of the main recommendations of the Brown Commission, established by the Labour Party to examine the future governance of the UK, was for the replacement of the House of Lords with an ‘assembly of the nations and regions’.
Adam Evans
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The 2024 Reform of the EU Judicial System and the Transformation of the Court of Justice into a Constitutional Court

European Papers
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2025 10(3), 837-862 | Article | (Table of Contents) 1. Introduction. – 2. Approaching constitutionalisation. – 3.
Tanja Hilpold
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Voter Access under Mandatory Voter ID: The Promise and Limits of the Voter Authority Certificate

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The Elections Act 2022 introduced mandatory photographic voter identification in UK general elections and English devolved elections, marking a decisive shift toward a universal requirement for in‐person voting. To mitigate access barriers in the absence of a national identity system, it also provided for the introduction of a new Voter ...
Petra Schleiter
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The Origins of the Human Rights Act: A ‘British Bill of Rights’ the First Time Around

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconstructs the first initiatives for a British Bill of Rights from the late 1960s to the mid‐1980s and argues that their failure shaped the eventual form of the Human Rights Act. Proposals for a Bill of Rights emerged across the political spectrum, but commanded most support on the right as a means of restraining trade unions ...
Marco Duranti, Christopher Hilliard
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John Gray: ‘Americanism’ and the Perversion of Post‐liberalism

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article will make the case for John Gray's inclusion in the canon of post‐liberals despite his protests to the contrary, and will argue that his peculiar post‐liberalism is important for its challenges to the dominance of liberalism as both a political culture and way of theorising the ends of politics based on the model of the American ...
Paul Kelly
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German Coalition Politics: Between Pluralist Stagnation and Crisis‐Driven Welfare Retrenchment

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The current German coalition government of the centre‐right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and the centre‐left Social Democrats (SPD) has spent its first year in office preparing for a major round of welfare state retrenchment. However, the coalition lacks a coherent political project.
Jörg Michael Dostal
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Liquid Assemblies: An Institutional Design for Liquid Democracy

Constellations, EarlyView.
Chiara Valsangiacomo Balmelli, Christina Isabel Zuber   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source